Hangs (on)

Usage examples of relies.

This reflects that the homogenization of temperature between two bodies relies on their having prolonged and unimpaired communication.

But if your CD player or personal computer breaks, its repair relies crucially on knowledge of its internal workings.

The Broward crack lab relies on the assumption that every officer who comes in contact with the cocaine will be straight and pure.

Named the Joule-Thomson effect, or the Joule-Kelvin effect, it relies on the fact that a gas escaping from a valve into a chamber of lower pressure will, under the right conditions, suffer a reduction in temperature.

Electromagnetic waves carry energy—life on earth, for example, relies crucially on solar energy transmitted from the sun to the earth by electromagnetic waves.

This concretely shows us that Riemann's geometrical framework, which relies fundamentally upon distances between points, is modified on microscopic scales by string theory.

The resolution to both of these issues relies on a central feature of quantum mechanics that we discussed in Chapter 4.

Third, every method of producing energy that I know of relies on the existence of a thermal gradient, usually in the form of a hot and a cold reservoir.

Where Hazeltine relies on a loyal bootlegger cum gang leader (who owes the attorney his freedom) for counsel and legwork on difficult cases, Mason relies on a loyal private detective.

He will have to ruin her reputation to put his case over unless he relies on her true story.

Unlike the Tarheel State, South Carolina relies on a coroner system, with practitioners operating independently in each county.